The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-15
TEN DOLLARS A SHAVE.
Princely Fees Paid Some Lucky Bar
bers.


berS.
| From TIE NelC Hdven Union.
1t is said that John G.. Anderson pays $50
vices. This tonsorial artist, who is a New
Yorker, and whose name, it appears is not
| known to any of the knights Of the brush
and razor in this city, has attended to the
elimination of Mr. AndersOns facial hirsute
| for many years, and now makes three visits
| each week to the Savin Rock residence Of
the munifcent millionaire, each visit net
ting him SO Although there are a few
men in this city whose wealth nearly
reaches the seven-figure point, an investiga-
| ton discloSeS the fact that, while they each
have favorite barber, they do not pay such
a princely fee
| Every man, no matter whether he is rich
| or poor, has his favOrite barber who he
| fondly believes can shave him better than
any other tonsorial artist in the world.
A reporter dropped into a chair in a bar
Der shop situated in the business portion of
| the city last evening for the purpose of OBJ
tanning a shave, luxury which he INDUCES
in annually. The loquacity of BARRIERS is
proverbial, and in answer to numerous
questions propounded by the scribe, the
barber said:
81 have no doubt but what John G.. An
derson does pay $40 shave and lam sorry
| Il
| fortune to be patronzed by him. Such
sums as he pays are not the general rule
although have in my sixteen years career
received fees nearly as large, but | did not
receive them regularly In 1878 | was
working i'll barber shop that had as
customer man named Hayes, who re
sided in Brooklyn, but at that time had the
contract of building some sewers in this
city
| ONE MORNING A MESSENGER
came to the shop and asked for barber to
| House to shave, cut his hair and shampoo
| him. | gathered my utensils and started
after being told by my employer to get 81
| for my work. | worked on him for nearly
an hour and half, and when had finished
he gave me a 80 bill, with instructions to
| keep the change. That was the largest fee
| ever obtained Several years ago while
running the shop in the Sterling House,
Bridgeport, | had number of good paying
| customers, among whom was a gentleman
named Sanford. He spent most of his
| time in New York, and would only visit me
about three times every month. He paid
| every month, and would never give less
than $40 for three shaves, and would often
| pay as much as 500 With few customers
like that barber could retire from bust
ness in a short time.
1.-The largest fees that have received in
this city of late have been so and. IS cents,
| and those were received from menSwho take
| a special pride in having their hair and
boards look nice, and who want to have
| both trimmed nearly every time they sit in
| the chair. OF course take special pains
with these men, for they pay me for so
doing, and often work on their boards for
an hour. have large number of such
customers, all of whom are business men,
| Among my customers are many travel
| ing agents for New York, Boston and
| Springfield firms, who, when in this city,
always call to see me and have me to shave
| Them or cut their hair. Some of these
drummers will not allow any other barber
| to give them a hair cut, and / have known
one of them to wait four months until he
| had chance to visit me and have his hair
| cut. | have heard it said that a wealthy
| BoStonian visits this city twice a week to be
shaved by his favorite barber, but in my
| opinion, and as far as | can learn, this is not
a fact, That story, think, originated from
the custom of some Boston drummer who,
when in this city on business, patronized
some local barber who he looked upon with
| favor. Among my many such customers
when in the Sterling House barber shop was
a man named Park, a drummer for a large
silk importing house in New York. He
always called on me when he wanted his
hair cut, and believe he would have allowed
hair before he would have 15saol on ~
LET ANYONE ELSE cur IT, Jb 7is
ga barber shop is great school for any
person who wishes to become thoroughly
| acquainted with human nature Some of
my customers are very hard to please, and
| some have curious ideas in regard to the
manner in which they wish to be shaved
| One of my customers does not consider
himself clean shaved unless l have gone
over his face with razor about six times
Another one likes to be shaved in peace
and will fly off in a towering passion if a
word is addressed to him from the time he
enters the shop. But the majority, if they
have any like failings, conceal them
There has, of late, been great change
in the style of shaving. A few years ago it
was the rule to lather person twice and
give a very close shave; now only one
lather is put on and we do not shave so
closely. There is good reason for this
change. We noticed that shaving too
closely caused the beard to grow coarser
and to stick out like the hairs in a shoe
| brush; it also caused it to become lighter
colored. Still have many customers who
ask for very close shave and imagine that
1T is very good thing to promote the
growth of the beard"
II cannot tell you,n continued the ton
serial artist, "what the quickest shaving
time is. Quick shaves are called railroad
shaves by U.S. / have shaved q man in a
minute and half, but of course would
not call it a very fine job, and have given a
hair cut and shave in eight minutes Ny
regular time in about ten minutes for shay
ing and twenty to twenty-five minutes for
a good hair cut, but when in hurry often
increase my speed and do as good work in
| less time.n
The reporter soon after visited another
shop, the proprietor of which was at leisure.
| The conversation soon turned to the diff
! ferent styles of dressing the hair and beard.
MANY persons" said the tonsorial artist,
"believe that the manner of dressing the
hair and beard have remained the same for
years; but this is not So for many different
| styles have been in vogue, most of which
were originated by Partisan BARRIERS. In no
place on earth is more attention paid to
the fixing up of the hair and beard than in
Paris. The style in this country at present
is what is called the pompadour style.
IT WAS ORIGINATED BY AN ACTOR
in the Theatre Franchise, named Bressant,
whose hair was naturally inclined to stand
| on an end. L never saw anything to admire
in that style, unless il was the fact that a
large amount of trouble in combing was
done away with, for all person had to do
was run his fingers through his hair every
morning and il was all right. This style Is
a modification of the German student style
| ssHair Martial i'm tho tniI1la a,I ,.np,bad